Soil Management
Soils are the central land-based carbon reservoirs. Soil management that protects the soil and increases humus contributes to the mitigation of soil-borne GHG emissions and can ideally stabilize or increase the organic carbon content of the soil. Soil management in agricultural land use has a particularly strong impact here. Measures for soil-conserving cultivation (e.g., conservation tillage, intercropping, mulch farming) can contribute to an improvement in soil structure and thus to carbon enrichment in the soil in the long term.
Dense time series of freely available satellite data (Landsat, Sentinel-2) offer the possibility of mapping land cover characteristics and tillage measures over the entire cultivation year. They therefore make an important contribution to environmental monitoring as well as for evaluating measures and calculating emissions from agricultural land use.